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Meaning of 'evil'
Meaning of 'evil' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Evil 
[ a.]
- Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good;
worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an
evil crop. [ a.]- Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
2. Evil [ adv.]
- In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
injuriously; unkindly. [ adv.]3. Evil [ n.]
- Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a
being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to
sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good. [ n.]- Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
- malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
Meaning of 'evil' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. evil [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
- the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
Example in sentence:
- attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world
Meaning (2):
- that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
- that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune
Example in sentence:
- the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones
2. evil [ a]
[ a]Meaning (3):
- morally bad or wrong
- morally bad or wrong
Example in sentence:
- an evil influence;
- evil deeds;
- evil purposes
3. evil [ s]
[ s]Meaning (4):
- having or exerting a malignant influence
- having or exerting a malignant influence
Example in sentence:
- a malefic force;
- malevolent stars
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